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The Commando idea, launched four years ago by Methodists, has been making headway in postwar Britain, now embraces all Protestant sects. Commando teams of 25 to 30 clerics descend on a town in concentrated attack. Biggest objective: London, schedule for April 1947.
...your March 25 issue, you say: "U.S. Protestantism is seething. . . . Charges of too much politicking . . . have been openly leveled at the Church of Rome, not only in the Pope-hating Southern Bible Belt, but by top-drawer Protestant clerics and laymen as well...
This week a suave, slight Chinese Protestant prescribed the same rule for the conversion of his enormous and absorbent country. Dr. Francis Cho Min Wei knows what he is talking about. In China he is a college president-of Hua Chung College (Christian) in Wuchang. In the U.S. (this year...
As to Christianity's future in his country, smiling convert Wei is an optimist, though a long-range one. "I have no hope," he says, "of China becoming Christian within a century. At present, only half of 1% of the Chinese population is nominally Christian, and only a tenth...
Robert Shannon, hero of A. J. Cronin's story (little Dean Stockwell and, later on, Tom Drake), is an Irish Catholic orphan, adopted by a Scottish Protestant family. The father (Hume Cronyn), a penny-pinching petty tyrant, sells the child's sole heirloom, a velocipede. The grandmother (Gladys...